Welcome Fiddled
I take it you are a Violinist?
A good and interesting post. I sort of know what you mean because Roulette is a very difficult game to get a handle on at times.
Once I was playing on Chartwell software (which some call Cheatwell
) and I was betting red for quite a big sum only for black to come 17 times in a row - a 1 in 100000 event.
And as you say you can watch on Sky and you will almost never see a run like that.
You might think I would totally agree with you. But I have a simple explanation to explain this conundrum. The Sky show only has one draw a minute so you hardly get to see any spins. If you play online you will be doing 4-5 spins a minute so you will see and awful lot more funny outcomes.
If major software companies like Playtech, MG, Crypto and Chartwell were cheating at Roulette then it would get found out pretty quick because all the hand histories are available. Infact if they were cheating us they would not throw these long runs of single colours in but would jsut pick certain numbers slightly more often. You can almost see these long runs as evidence of their fairness.
The bottom line is these casinos make enough off us with their 2.70 or 5% House Advantage. With an edge liek that why would they need to cheat?